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420: You Can't Sideload Happiness Jul 01, 2021

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Mike's got some strong feels about his new system, and Chris spent a week with Windows 11. And that's not even scratching the surface. It's a wild one, with some hard truths, so buckle up.

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Windows 11 is a new and refreshing approach to an old and familiar home — The last significant change to Windows 11 that we’re able to test right now is the new Microsoft Store. To put it simply, Microsoft’s app store for Windows has sucked since it first appeared nearly 10 years ago. Microsoft is finally allowing developers to submit any win32 traditional desktop app, and Microsoft Store has already become far more useful during a beta than it ever was before.
Salt Lake City | Meetup — On our way to Denver, we are swinging through Salt Lake City, that is if we get enough people to sign up!
Denver Meetup | Meetup — Many of the Jupiter Broadcasting cast are getting together in Denver for a much overdue reunion - and we'd like to spend an evening with you!
How we Arrived at the Pop!_OS COSMIC Design — Pop!_OS 21.04 introduces the COSMIC desktop, which changes the workflow that users have become accustomed to since Pop!_OS first released.
Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry’s antitrust battles
GitHub Copilot — With GitHub Copilot, get suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor.
Use Microsoft Live Share to collaborate with Visual Studio Code — Live Share enables you to quickly collaborate with a friend, classmate, or professor on the same code without the need to sync code or to configure the same development tools, settings, or environment.
GitHub Pages — Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

419: Authentication Timeout Jun 24, 2021

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Big Tech's punishment train has been en route for years, but now that it's almost arrived, are we getting onboard?

Plus Mike's recent tech woes and Chris' special surprise waiting for him in the studio.

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Salt Lake City | Meetup — On our way to Denver, we are swinging through Salt Lake City, that is if we get enough people to sign up!
Denver Meetup | Meetup — Many of the Jupiter Broadcasting cast are getting together in Denver for a much overdue reunion - and we'd like to spend an evening with you!
Google is risk averse & has paralyzing bureaucracy, executives say — Several other Google executives told The New York Times that the company is suffering from a number of issues related to its size and maturity, including a "paralyzing bureaucracy, a bias toward inaction and a fixation on public perception."
Sundar Pichai Faces Internal Criticism at Google - The New York Times — Despite record profits, a number of them are worried that the company is suffering from both its size and leadership from its C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.
Apple's Tim Cook called Nancy Pelosi — Cook cautioned that the bills were rushed, would stifle innovation, and would hurt consumers by wreaking havoc on Apple services, according to the report. He also requested that the Judiciary Committee delay its process of consideration, a funnel through which the legislation must pass before reaching the full House.
U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Antitrust Legislation — These measures are the culmination of a 16-month antitrust investigation into tech companies practices that kicked off in 2019, and which saw Apple CEO Tim Cook testify in an antitrust hearing alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times — Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen groups paid by Big Tech have tried to head off bipartisan support for six bills meant to undo the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
New poll shows voters favor tech regulation — A new poll commissioned by tech industry-funded group shows 53% of voters favor at least some tech regulation.
Microsoft Market Value Hits $2 Trillion — Microsoft Corp. took its place in the history books as just the second U.S. public company to reach a $2 trillion market value
Windows 11 event: what to expect from Microsoft - The Verge — Microsoft’s “next generation” of Windows event is taking place later this week, on June 24th at 11AM ET.

418: I'm a Teapot Jun 16, 2021

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We get a bit skeptical about Stripe Identity, how it works, and precisely why we don't like some of their privacy trade-offs.

Plus, a tool we're calling "game-changing" that probably makes anyone a master developer.

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Cellular Data Plans - Mobile Internet Resource Center — Cellular data plans are offered for smartphones, mobile hotspot devices and cellular embedded routers. They come direct from the carriers, prepaid & postpaid and through 3rd parties. Unlimited doesn't always mean unlimited either.
Stripe Identity: Verify identities with confidence — Stripe Identity lets you programmatically confirm the identity of global users so you can prevent attacks from fraudsters while minimizing friction for legitimate customers.
Zhuowei Zhang on Twitter — Virtualization.framework even emulates DFU mode when booting macOS 12 Apple Silicon as a guest, over virtio-usb, using AVPBooter.
These macOS 12 Monterey features do not work on Intel — According to Apple, here are the macOS 12 Monterey features available only on Mac computers with Apple Silicon (currently, the M1 chip)
Clippy - Visual Studio Marketplace — It shows you your mistakes! It's annoying! it moves!
Sublimerge — The professional diff & merge tool for Sublime Text

417: Why Would Developers Care? Jun 09, 2021

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Our takes on the important bits from Apple's WWDC 2021 keynote and State of the Union.

None of the fluff, just the stuff the mattered.

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FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows — Apple is turning FaceTime into a bit more of a Zoom-like video calling service with this update. FaceTime is also going to allow you to grab a link to a scheduled call so that you can share it with people in advance and join in at the right time.
iPadOS 15 Preview - Features - Apple — A menu at the top of apps lets you enter Split View, Slide Over, full screen, or center window with just a tap. You can also quickly close a window from the menu.
Siri coming to third-party devices for the first time
iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition — With iOS 15, Siri will now be able to handle a variety of requests without an Internet connection.
iPadOS 15: You can now build apps on the iPad — For the first time, you can code, iterate and build apps on the iPad itself. Using Swift Playgrounds on iPadOS 15.
Xcode Cloud Overview — Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
iOS 15 Includes Built-In Password Authenticator With Autofill — One of these new features is a built-in authenticator that will let iOS devices be used to generate verification codes for additional sign-in security.
Sébastien Page on Twitter — So, Apple totally Sherlocked my app in iOS 15.
Peter Steinberger on Twitter — VPNs sherlocked
Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines — First, developers who appeal an app rejection can now specify if they believe their app was rejected due to unfair treatment by the App Review team, including political bias or other forms of bias. Second, developers can now report other apps if they believe they present trust or safety concerns, or otherwise violate the App Store Review Guidelines.
Apple’s new App Store Guidelines aim to crack down on fraud and scams

416: Strange Voltron of Hell Jun 02, 2021

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Mike's unique take on the bold promises made at MS Build this year, and the one item he REALLY wants announced at WWDC next week.

Plus a batch of your emails, a little proxy war, and more!

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Microsoft Build was bad, and the company needs to do better — WebView2 in WinUI 3, Project Reunion 0.8, Windows search improvements, and Windows Terminal 1.9.
Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News — This Book of News is your resource for all the announcements we’re making at Microsoft Build.
Qualcomm has a Snapdragon Developer Kit to test Windows apps — Powered by the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 chipset, it’s also going to include things like .NET 5.0, Visual Studio Code, FFMPEG, LLVM, Chromium, Wix, and more. With x64 emulation currently preview, developers can test that out as well to see the benefit with a native ARM64 app.
Microsoft Build: Nadella teases Windows update; Teams, Azure improved — CEO Satya Nadella teased “one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade” in his kickoff speech at Microsoft’s Build conference for software developers.
Apple Accuses Microsoft of Using Epic in Legal Attack — Apple claims Epic used as many witnesses associated with Microsoft at trial as it did its own -- five each -- including Susan Athey from Stanford University.
WWDC 2021 Predictions - dominickm.com — Here are my predictions of what we’ll see.

415: Keyboard Kurious May 26, 2021

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We both fall for a new fancy keyboard; then we get philosophical about free software's never-ending quest to conquer mobile.

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Launch Keyboard - System76 — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
Panic Blog » The Future of Code Editor — We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
Developing in the Windows Subsystem for Linux with Visual Studio Code — The Visual Studio Code Remote - WSL extension lets you use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as your full-time development environment right from VS Code.
Work in Windows Subsystem for Linux with Visual Studio Code — This tutorial walks you through enabling Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and running Visual Studio Code in WSL using the Remote - WSL extension.
An In Depth Tutorial on Linux Development on Windows with WSL and Visual Studio Code | Windows Command Line

414: Google I/NO May 19, 2021

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After Chris gets a reality check from Mike, the guys answer some emails and admit a cold hard truth.

Plus our reaction to the creation of a Linux Subsystem for Mac.

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Framework Laptop review (hands on) — the anti-MacBook is here — This is a big deal for DIY computing enthusiasts, and it's a powerful sales pitch in a market where leading manufacturers like Apple proudly release products designed to be difficult (if not impossible) for customers to crack open and tinker with themselves.
Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open — Starting at $999, with a fully refundable $100 deposit
Google I/O 2021 preview — Google I/O starts Tuesday, May 18 at 1 pm EDT, when Google/Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will take the stage and presumably show off what Google has been working on all year.
How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS — The pattern of use of cores is that almost all the activities of macOS are run on the Efficiency cores, with only the occasional blip on the Performance cores. Running apps and performing other user tasks is the other way around, with the brunt borne on the Performance rather than Efficiency cores. This is because those user tasks are more likely to run with QoS of at least 17, and in many cases 25 and 33.
Lima: Linux-on-Mac: "macOS subsystem for Linux" — Lima can be considered as a some sort of unofficial "macOS subsystem for Linux", or "containerd for Mac".

413: Painpoints to Profits May 12, 2021

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Chris struggles with his nature, while Mike shares some sage developer advice that everyone should hear before using a platform like AWS.

Then we react, strongly, to Docker charging to skip updates.

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Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me — My business has used AWS for around 3 years and our normal usage is $1k per month in EC2 and S3. In early March a hacker accessed our AWS account through my login via an IP address in Austria (I'm in Austin, TX). They spun up 3 large instances of EC2 which began charging us $1k-$2k per day.
Changing How Updates Work with Docker Desktop 3.3 — If you use Docker Desktop at work you may need to skip a specific update. For this reason, Pro or Team subscription developers can skip notifications for a particular update when a reminder appears.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt on Twitter — ...ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now??
Dieu Cao on Twitter — The snooze interval is once a day. I'm asking our comms team if they can update the existing blog post to be more explicit about the behavior that you won't see these until two weeks after an update becomes available and then once a day after that.
Nick Statt on Twitter — This is really key. Apple’s lawyer says "Apple did not establish the 30 percent,” but rather game companies did back around 2003 when digital distrbuition was starting. “30% was, as Epic’s integrate documents will show, industry standard."
Ben Bajarin on Twitter — Basically, they want to argue that macOS being more "open" yet still employing strong security and privacy stands in contrast to their argument about the policies on iPhone and iOS app store.
The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering
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412: Context in Comprehension May 05, 2021

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From adventures in learning, a recipe for great collaborations, to creativity and problem-solving in tech. It's a deep dive chat with Wes Payne.

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411: The Misadventures of Mad Mikhail Apr 28, 2021

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Mike has a few stories to share, but more importantly a very hard lesson he's going to make damn sure you learn.

And Chris has a breakthrough after spending the weekend with WSL's GUI Linux apps.

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10 Questions to ask in a Job Interview — Spoiler alert: “What’s the culture like here?” is definitely NOT one of them.
Apple's M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model — If you want to buy a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, Apple will sell you an M1. Want a Mac Mini? You get an M1. Interested in the iMac or the new iPad Pro? You get an M1.
The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux — GUI app support now lets you use your favorite Linux GUI applications as well.

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